Leading Australian organization
Cage Fighting Championship has placed a pair of heavyweight
matchups atop the card for its May event in Sydney.

Promotion officials Sunday announced that the co-main events for
CFC 21 will see Jeff Monson
against “Big” Jim York
(Pictured) and Soa Palelei
versus Bob
Sapp. Undercard bouts have yet to be announced for the show,
which takes place May 18 at Homebush State Sports Centre at Sydney
Olympic Park.

Monson, 41, is one of the sport’s most active and far-traveled
heavyweights, having racked up nearly 60 bouts around the world in
his 15-year career. The stocky grappler from American Top Team went
4-2 in 2011, but was soundly outpointed by Fedor
Emelianenko and Daniel
Cormier in his two high-profile appearances. Monson got back on
track March 16 by grinding down Alexey
Oleinik for a decision win in the main event of M-1 Challenge
31.

His opponent, 36-year-old New Zealander York, enters the bout on a
four-fight win streak but has not recorded a bout since November
2010. Once expected to take part in the 10th season of “The
Ultimate Fighter,” York reeled off his four in a row -- most
notably choking out kickboxer Peter
Graham in July 2010 -- in a five-month span after a
disappointing run with Japan’s Sengoku promotion.

Best known for his one-and-done stint in the UFC, Palelei has torn
through nearly all opposition in his home country since exiting the
Octagon. The 34-year-old “Hulk” is 7-1 in his last eight starts,
finishing all but one of his wins inside the first round. His only
misstep in the past three years came in a November 2010 stoppage
loss to Cormier.

Once a starring attraction in Japan’s Pride and K-1 Hero’s events,
Sapp has won only one of his last nine outings; all eight losses
have come via first-round stoppage or submission. “The Beast” is
0-2 so far in 2012, having tapped to strikes from Rolles
Gracie in February before suffering a leg injury in his March
11 meeting with James
Thompson in India.

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